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Getting rid of dish this week. Going with internet, radio, netflix and video games for the kid.
TV is just throwing money down the toilet.
Netflix isn't that great. Their on-line delivery is nice, but the content they have to deliver is pretty poor, at least for my demographic.
It's kind of like a combination of 'lifetime' and 'Starz' (well, a lot of it actually is Starz). Lot of bummer "movies" you wouldn't want to watch. Their on-line "classics" are second-rate. Once in a while they put up a worthwhile movie or two. Maybe once a month.
Probably about the same frequency that HBO puts up something worth watching.
Of course, it's a lot cheaper than cable.
Netflix may fray the cord, but I can’t see it getting snipped for that reason alone. Traditional cable companies carry a lot of live stuff that Netflix never will have (unless it, too, becomes another traditional cable company).
Now, I hardly watch TV at all, even free off the air, and have no cable service. I get my internet from my phone company. But enough people apparently like their bread and circuses well enough, and the circus part will never be duplicated in full by Netflix in its present conception.
In a net neutral world, they would not be able to do so, any more than the phone company can charge you more to call Domino's rather than Papa John's, or the water company can charge you more per gallon for filling your pool than for washing your car.
I cancelled most of my cable tv and went to Netflix. I’m trying to dump phone as well, because it makes me furious that my bill doesn’t go down when I want FEWER services. If I can find a substitute for internet, I’m dumping Comcast completely.
My daughter and I miss the Food Network, though. :)
Decisions, decisions.
That bit in there about ISP’s and bandwith caps explains EXACTLY the sort of Net Neutrality one can argue in favor of.
I love Roku. I can choose what I want to watch from Netflix.
TV programming and cable is awful.
I joined Netflix when it first opened, and shut off my cable a few months later.
Haven’t missed it at all.
When netflix gets the NFL, MLB and the NHL...I’ll think about “cutting the cable”...
All that matters is that they get their hands on your money.
After that, good luck getting hold of a federal customer service rep.
Netflix has seriously screwed the pooch on their “New and Improved” UI. Announced on their blog; there are 5,000 comments (ALL NEGATIVE), and no more can be accepted.
Epic fail.
I’m about ready to call and cancel.
I have seen a tip for saving money that says drop cable and use Netficks, so yeah, cable and dish buh bye, you can’t rip off people anymore.
Here’s one family who cut the cord and went to Netflix. We’re saving a buttload of money going down the drain for 100s of channels of crap.
I love Netflix and plan to downgrade cable.
I can watch boring old shows that I choose for $9/month; or I can watch boring old shows that someone else choses for me for $80/month.
What’s the question again?
Now is the time to strike and deal a crippling blow tot he current TV model (infested by liberals) and help to replace it with one that is conservative or at the very least truly neutral.
I only use the cable company for my internet connection. I get basic cable anyway, which is more than I want. My son likes SyFy, I like FOX News and otherwise, we use NetFlix either by disk or streaming (again, piggybacking the internet connection).